Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: EAPI-2 support

2008-11-05 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, > And emake is and still should be the default. If there is an issue with it, > the ebuild author has to > change his ebuild. But this should not be taken to force only one makejob for > everyone else. > But with rotating storage, don't you (very much) only want one I/O-bound job at a ti

Re: [gentoo-dev] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-06-19 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:42:51 +0100 > Mike Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And yet still you keep fighting? Why? >> > > Because unlike pretty much everyone else around here, I haven't given > up on Gentoo. I still think it can have a future. > If you re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Jim Ramsay wrote: > [snip] > Have netscape-flash with IUSE="vanilla" (by default it is off), which > when enabled will not pull in libflashsupport. > I don't quite see why this is necessary? Or why you do have this discussion? > This meets the following goals: > > 1) It makes it easy for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Hello, > > (...) > > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/paludis-0.24 You mean "Display-If-Installed:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology

2007-04-28 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, I would hate to drag this discussion on endlessly, so I promise this will be my only post :). Dominique Michel wrote: > Le Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:07:26 -0700, > Josh Saddler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > >> Steve Dibb wrote: >> >>> Dominique Michel wrote: >>> I fully agre

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:47:46 +0200 Thomas Rösner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Other things I want from Gentoo right now depend on factors other than the package manager, too; prebuilt packages A package manager that supports a better binary package

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Have a look at [1] and all the open "Portage should..." bugs. Would any of those improve the user experience for you? Can you think of other features of a similar nature that would make your life easier? Funny thing is: the only thing that I'd really care about ar

[gentoo-dev] FYI: linux.com article about the CoC

2007-03-26 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, for those interested, linux.com has a rather long article about the CoC, carefully worded so the email snippets sound like interview opinions :-). It seems the open source press will watch this list for some time to come, I see more articles than usual about Gentoo and the recent flamewar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Something positive! (was Re: Client-serve flags (again ;))

2007-03-11 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: You really have no idea what's considered perfectly acceptable on the forums, do you? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1053530.html#1053530 <-- acceptable Now *that's* satire. See, on forums you can retract what you said (if you don't get quoted, that is),

Re: [gentoo-dev] Client-serve flags (again ;) (was Re: New eclass: gkrellm-plugin)

2007-03-10 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Of the mysql tarball (23Mb to start), a full 40% belongs to the testcases and the documentation that they ship. Another 8% for the modified copy of BerkDB that they ship, and only then do we start getting really useful things. 12% for the things unique to the server,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Client-serve flags (again ;) (was Re: New eclass: gkrellm-plugin)

2007-03-10 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Robin H. Johnson schrieb: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:56:51AM +0100, Thomas R?sner wrote: I can understand that rationale for the client part, but which packages would depend on the server part of e.g. MySQL if they could? And building the server part to get the small client lib is a larg

Re: [gentoo-dev] Client-serve flags (again ;) (was Re: New eclass: gkrellm-plugin)

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
Chris Gianelloni schrieb: On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:10 +, Steve Long wrote: I don't know how it would work technically, how difficult it would be, or indeed if anyone is prepared to do the work, besides maybe some of the users. No. Once we have USE-based dependencies across the boa

[gentoo-dev] Sad

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Disclaimer**: this mail is not meant to point the finger at someone, as I (thankfully) don't know enough about who did what first to whom to do that; in fact, I think no one does at this point. Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:31:56 + (UTC) Hubert Mercier <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Danny van Dyk schrieb: 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a "Copyright (C) Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries of the EU. E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to Gentoo's rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Rösner
Brian Harring schrieb: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:13:11AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the | > specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers o

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-09 Thread Thomas Rösner
Daniel Robbins schrieb: Structured this way, "fastlayout" is certainly a project that sounds like a great idea, and would I enjoy working on in some capacity - I have some ideas about this. I also think it would be a good idea to check out what other distributions are doing in this area. Defini

Re: [gentoo-dev] A major change coming in the rox packages

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Rösner
Jim Ramsay schrieb: I am planning on moving the install locations of all the rox-base/* and rox-extra/* applications from their current location (/usr/lib/rox) to something a little more FHS-correct[1] and tolerant of multilib support. The main reason for this change is that I got a bug from amd

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Rösner
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:20:17 -0500 Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Do *YOU* have anything useful to contribute to the discussion because | all I've seen is your useless FUD which countless times people have | said is not true. I can count to one. If you

Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Rösner
Daniel Black schrieb: Fellow devs, [...] Ebuilds that already have their implementation of savedconfig: sys-apps/busybox sys-libs/uclibc x11-wm/dwm x11-misc/dmenu Other potential candidates: net-misc/dropbear [2] app-emulation/mol app-shells/tcsh dev-libs/klibc dev-lang/ccc mail-mta/sendmail n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-18 Thread Thomas Rösner
Dan Meltzer wrote: see http://dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/projects/soc/glep-0052.txt and http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/42044/match= ...in which mercurial is only mentioned in passing. Apart from Gentoo choosing a new VCS I'd really be interested in how the tests went with Hg (